
New in this prerelease of the 25.3 plugins:
- Updated DynaPDF to version 4.0.102.288.
- Added SetActiveSigField function for DynaPDFMBS class.
- Added isTahoe method to SystemInformationMBS module.
- Improved DumpToStrings method to InternalSQLiteLibraryMBS module.
- Updated SQLite to version 3.50.1.
- Added DataTypeInt8 constant for MLMultiArrayMBS class.
- Updated CURL library to version 8.14.1.
- Added OptionSSLSignatureAlgorithms property to CURLSMBS class.
- Added kWebSocketNoAutoPong constant to CURLSMBS class.
- Improved loading LDAP library on Linux to work on Ubuntu 22 and 24.
- Added CGDirectDisplayID property to NSScreenMBS class.
- Added neutralValue property to NSSliderMBS class.
- Added prefersCompactControlSizeMetrics to NSViewMBS class.
- Added ControlSizeExtraLarge constant to NSControlMBS class.
- Added backgroundTintColor and style properties to NSToolbarItemMBS class.
- Added NSWritingToolsResultPresentationIntent constant to NSTextViewMBS class.
- Added NSEventTypeMouseCancelled constant to NSEventMBS class.
- Added placeholderStrings and placeholderAttributedStrings methods to NSTextFieldMBS class.
- Added constants to NSButtonCellMBS class.
Download:
monkeybreadsoftware.de/xojo/download/plugin/Prerelease/.
Or ask us to be added to our shared DropBox folder.
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New in this prerelease of version 15.3 of the
MBS FileMaker Plugin:
- Updated DynaPDF to version 4.0.102.288.
- Added DynaPDF.SetActiveSigField function.
- Added SystemInfo.isTahoe function.
- Fixed a problem in CompressFiles method for ZipMBS class, broken since 25.0.
- Improved SQL.InternalSQLiteLibrary.Dump function.
- Updated SQLite to version 3.50.1.
- Improved our CoreML functions to handle Int8 data type in addition to Float16, Float32, Int32 and Float64 data types that your models may use.
- Updated CURL library to version 8.14.1.
- Added CURL.SetOptionSSLSignatureAlgorithms function.
- Improved loading LDAP library on Linux to work on Ubuntu 22 and 24.
- Changed copy text/selection in ScriptWorkspace to indent the lines.
- Added SelectedOnly and EndOfLine parameters for ScriptWorkspace.StyledScriptText function.
Download at
monkeybreadsoftware.com/filemaker/files/Prerelease/
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Did you know that you can use JSON in our Saxon functions? Originally Saxon is a XML library, but it can take JSON as input in various queries. The queries internally work with maps and arrays and these can be filled by JSON.
Let us show you how to use JSON for Saxon.XPathQuery and Saxon.XQuery functions:
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For the MBS Xojo SQL Plugin 25.5, we add a few extensions and include UUID, Base64 and CSV. The base64 extension allows us to make an base64 encoding in a SQL query as the extension adds the base64() function. It converts BLOB to base64 encoded text or back.
To use it in your Xojo application, you need to set the Base64ExtensionEnabled property in the InternalSQLiteLibraryMBS module to true. Then we enable the internal library with the Use method.
// use internal sqlite library with Base64 extension
InternalSQLiteLibraryMBS.Base64ExtensionEnabled = True
Call InternalSQLiteLibraryMBS.Use
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For the next version of MBS FileMaker Plugin in 15.3 we add the Window.SetRoundCorners function to provide round corners.
At the recent Vienna Calling conference a developer asked if we can get the edges of the card in FileMaker to be round. And yes, that is indeed possible. Once the card is shown, the MBS Plugin can find the card window and apply round corners to it.
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For the MBS Xojo SQL Plugin 25.5, we add a few extensions and include UUID, Base64 and CSV. The uuid extension allows us to make an uuid in a SQL query as the extension adds these functions:
uuid() | generate a version 4 UUID as a string |
uuid_str(X) | convert a UUID X into a well-formed UUID string |
uuid_blob(X) | convert a UUID X into a 16-byte blob |
Let's use this in an example project:
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New in this prerelease of version 15.3 of the
MBS FileMaker Plugin:
Download at
monkeybreadsoftware.com/filemaker/files/Prerelease/
You can subscribe to our FileMaker mailing list to get notified for new pre-release and release versions.

New in this prerelease of the 25.3 plugins:
Download:
monkeybreadsoftware.de/xojo/download/plugin/Prerelease/.
Or ask us to be added to our shared DropBox folder.
You can subscribe to our Xojo mailing list to get notified for new pre-release and release versions.
Did you notice that MBS FileMaker Plugin 15.2 includes a new feature to add keyboard shortcuts for the result data types for a formula?
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Did you know we can pass styled text to Apple Mail?
We can use our SharingService functions to share data with other applications. This includes passing styled text, containers with images, files or URLs.
Available services
Using the SharingService.ServicesForItems function, we can query the available services to request. This allows us to check which services are available and only show a button to share via Airdrop, if that is possible.
By default you have these services available on macOS:
Title | Name | Text | File Path | Images | URLs |
Add to Photos | com.apple.share.System.add-to-iphoto | - | X | X | - |
Add to Reading List | com.apple.share.System.add-to-safari-reading-list | - | - | - | X |
AirDrop | com.apple.share.AirDrop.send | - | X | X | X |
Dropbox Transfer | com.getdropbox.dropbox.TransferExtension | - | X | X | - |
Freeform | com.apple.freeform.sharingextension | X | X | X | X |
Mail | com.apple.share.Mail.compose | X | X | X | X |
Messages | com.apple.share.Messages.window | X | X | X | X |
Notes | com.apple.Notes.SharingExtension | X | X | X | X |
Reminders | com.apple.reminders.sharingextension | X | X | X | X |
Simulator | com.apple.iphonesimulator.ShareExtension | - | X | X | X |
If you install applications, they may offer additional services. I got Dropbox to show up here, so I included it in the table.
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New in this prerelease of the 25.3 plugins:
Download:
monkeybreadsoftware.de/xojo/download/plugin/Prerelease/.
Or ask us to be added to our shared DropBox folder.
You can subscribe to our Xojo mailing list to get notified for new pre-release and release versions.

New in this prerelease of version 15.3 of the
MBS FileMaker Plugin:
Download at
monkeybreadsoftware.com/filemaker/files/Prerelease/
You can subscribe to our FileMaker mailing list to get notified for new pre-release and release versions.
The MBS Xojo MongoDB Plugin got GridFS functionality in the last release. It allows you to store files in a MongoDB database. Internally the files are stored in two tables, one with the file list and a second one with file chunks. The MongoDB client library provides a nice interface for this. We wrap that in MongoGridFSMBS and MongoGridFSFileMBS classes.
Read file
Let's read a file. We build the MongoURIMBS object for whatever server we need, in our example a local one. We connect to the server using the MongoClientMBS class. Then we initialise the MongoGridFSMBS object using the name of the database "test". We store files in this database and use the prefix "fs" for the table. You can store files in multiple databases and store different file sets within the same database with different prefixes.
The FindOneByFileName() function finds a file by the name (or path). You get the matching MongoGridFSFileMBS object and then you can inspect properties or use the read methods to read the content. Here is a little sample code:
Sub Read()
Var uri As New MongoURIMBS("mongodb://localhost/")
Var Client as new MongoClientMBS(uri)
Var GridFS As MongoGridFSMBS = Client.GridFS("test", "fs")
// now find the file and write it
Var file As MongoGridFSFileMBS = GridFS.FindOneByFileName( "test.txt")
// read data
Var data As String = file.ReadAll
Var bytes As Integer = data.Bytes
MessageBox "bytes read: "+bytes.ToString
End Sub
You may have the Client and GridFS objects in properties of your window or app. This way you keep it open and avoid reconnecting each time.
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My streak in DuoLingo was 1541 days with 84 weeks in the top league. I did the tournament and won it twice. I earned a ton of badges including finishing first in the diamond league.
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Check out the FMTraining.tv website. Richard Carlton and his team do a daily free live stream about FileMaker to watch.
A few days ago Christian Schmitz from Monkeybread Software joined a live episode to talk a bit about the MBS FileMaker Plugin. Watch it on YouTube.
We talked about the 15.2 release: See announcement, the new functions and release notes.
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Check out the FMTraining.tv website. Richard Carlton and his team do a daily free live stream about FileMaker to watch.
A few days ago Christian Schmitz from Monkeybread Software joined a live episode to talk a bit about the MBS FileMaker Plugin. Watch it on YouTube.
A question and answer round for the MBS FileMaker Plugin. We check Window.Activate, Process.SetFrontMost, Time.Format, AVRecorder, WebView, DynaPDF, JSON and more functions. We check out the script workspace enhancements with the various shortcuts and the snippet database.
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We used to suggest scripts like the one below to install the
MBS FileMaker Plugin and check for the error status. But the following script has a big problem, a little oversight on how FileMaker works. Try to guess what is wrong here:
Install Plug-In File [ Install Plugin Update if needed::Plugin File Mac ]
Set Variable [ $LastError ; Value: Get(LastError) ]
Set Variable [ $LastErrorDetail ; Value: Get(LastErrorDetail) ]
The script installs the plugin and in case of an error, we like to query the error code and message. But this script never gets the last error detail! You may guess that we query the last error number and detail for the first line with the installation. But what we do is to query the detail for LastErrorDetail, we get the result from the Set Variable script line in the second line. Yes, the Set Variable will clear the error state and thus we never get the detail for the first line.
We have a fixed script:
Install Plug-In File [ Install Plugin Update if needed::Plugin File Mac ]
Set Variable [ $r ; Value: Let([
$lastError = Get(LastError);
$lastErrorMessage = Get(LastErrorDetail)
]; 1) ]
This time we use a
Let() statement to query both
LastError and
LastErrorDetail and assign it to variables. This way the Set Variable can overwrite the error state after we got the values.
If you have existing scripts using Get(LastErrorDetail), you may want to update them to use a Let statement.

We look for speakers interested to present at the MBS Xojo Conference, 22nd to 24th April 2026 in Andernach, Germany.
If we can have you as a speaker for a full session, 45 minutes talk and 15 minutes for questions, we honor your work with a discounted ticket.
We look for topics like these:
- Desktop app development
- Web development
- iOS development
- Android development
- Database access
- Threads, workers, shell class to run things in background
- The various ways to work with PDF.
- Encryption best practices
- App Stores
- Performance optimization
- Tips & tricks for Xojo
Feel free to submit your topic to us. There may be other topics possible, that are not on the list above. Please sign up for the conference to reserve your spot.
If your topic is chosen to go on the schedule, we will offer you a refund if you paid already for your ticket.
Please contact us if you like to become a presenter and please do not hesitate to send us questions.
A few days ago Saxonica company released a new version of their Saxon libraries: Announcing Saxon 12.7!
We reported over 20 issues over time against 12.5 and they got fixed for us. Great service!
We have the download for Saxon libraries for you on our website: Saxon Downloads.
Our package include only the libraries and we built an universal library for macOS to bundle both intel and ARM code into one file. This is a convenience for you, so you don't need to download the big packages from Saxonica.
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With the release of MBS Xojo Plugins version 25.2, developers gain access to a powerful new class designed to help manage concurrency in a thread-safe, lock-free manner: the AtomicFlagMBS
class. This lightweight atomic boolean type can be the foundation for building your own synchronization primitives like semaphores or critical sections — without relying on heavyweight system locks.
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